Draupadi Murmu leading after first round of counting
The first round of counting of the Presidential poll on Thursday showed that Draupadi Murmu is far ahead of her counterpart Yashwant Sinha.
The first round of counting of the Presidential poll on Thursday showed that Draupadi Murmu is far ahead of her counterpart Yashwant Sinha.
The counting of votes to elect India's 15th President will take place on Thursday. The counting will begin at Parliament House at 11 am.
The leaders said Sinha’s candidature was supported by the entire Opposition. Sinha filed his nomination papers three days after Murmu, the NDA candidate.
Polling for the Presidential election will begin on Monday in the Parliament and respective state Assemblies to elect a new President.
The presidential candidate, who was in Chandigarh for his poll campaign, said the election for the 15th President is taking place under highly troubled conditions. "Never before, not even during the Emergency in the mid-1970s, did our Republic face as many simultaneous threats to the Constitution. The economy is badly mismanaged, creating unprecedented price rise and unemployment. Our democracy is in grave danger," he said.
Trivedi, who resigned from the Rajya Sabha in February, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the following month
The Rashtra Manch meeting could to that extent be seen as a not-so-subtle hint to the Congress to either get in or stay out.
Sinha, who held the finance and external affairs portfolios in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government has been severely critical of the Narendra Modi government's policies and style of functioning.
AAP bagged 62 of the total 70 seats, restricting the principal challenger BJP again to a single-digit figure of mere 8 seats in a bitterly-fought, fiercely-contested electoral battle that took place in the national capital in the midst of continuing protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Pawar also said that an atmosphere of fear is prevailing in the country regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act and the Nation Register of Citizens.
